Marcin Dudek

I've been shipping software for 16 years. Spent 14 of them at CreativeMinds - started part-time, left as CTO and co-owner. Now I build WordPress plugins, AI tools, and SaaS products on my own. Toptal

Joined on May 26, 2026

Marcin Dudek

Jul 17

A one-shot code-review benchmark: scoring restraint over recall across four Claude models

#aillm #benchmarks

9 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 16

I Had 285 Claude Code Permission Rules. Only 41 Did Anything.

#claudecode #aiengineering

7 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 13

Exit Interview: The AI Hustler Speaks

#interview

9 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 13

Oxford Debate: API vs MCP — The Future of AI Tool Integration

#ai #debate

10 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 13

288,493 Requests in 24 Hours — How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force From a Weird Cache Ratio

#wordpress #security

5 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

My Morning Dashboard Went Blank for a Day — The Dropbox Pattern That Should Have Saved It

#engineering #devops

12 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

30 WooCommerce Performance Tips That Actually Work (2026)

#wordpress #performance

14 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

I Checked If Ghost Is The Answer To WordPress Problems

#wordpress #ghost #cms

13 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

WordPress Plugin Auto-Update via Polar — and the 3 Bugs I Shipped in 24 Hours

#wordpress #engineeringpostmortem

10 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

Build Your Own Morning Dashboard - A One-Page Recipe

#engineering #devops

8 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

Scrape Pass — Get paid when AI reads your site

#ai #monetization

7 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

How I Stop My Claude Code Sessions From Rotting

#claudecode #aiengineering

7 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 9

Plastic-Eating Bacteria: How Microbes Evolved to Digest a 70-Year-Old Material

#science #biology

8 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 6

Hooks That Won't Let the AI Shoot Me in the Foot

#claudecode #aiengineering

7 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 6

The Hook That Won't Let the Agent Say "Done"

#claudecode #aiengineering

9 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 2

A Local LLM Reads My Prompt Before Claude Does

#claudecode #aiengineering

8 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 2

The Hooks You Stop Noticing: Claude Code's Ambient Layer

#claudecode #aiengineering

11 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 2

The Podcast Invite That Was Actually Malware

#security #socialengineering

6 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jul 2

Claude Code Quietly Taught Itself to Stop Waiting for You

#claudecode #aiengineering

9 min read

Marcin Dudek

Jun 18

I Tested All 11 Free WooCommerce EU Withdrawal-Button Plugins

#woocommerce #eucompliance

12 min read

Marcin Dudek

May 26

WordPress Manifesto - 15 Years In, Here's What's Actually Broken

#wordpress #opinion #webdev #programming

8 min read

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A one-shot code-review benchmark: scoring restraint over recall across four Claude models

I Had 285 Claude Code Permission Rules. Only 41 Did Anything.

Exit Interview: The AI Hustler Speaks

Oxford Debate: API vs MCP — The Future of AI Tool Integration

288,493 Requests in 24 Hours — How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force From a Weird Cache Ratio

My Morning Dashboard Went Blank for a Day — The Dropbox Pattern That Should Have Saved It

30 WooCommerce Performance Tips That Actually Work (2026)

I Checked If Ghost Is The Answer To WordPress Problems

WordPress Plugin Auto-Update via Polar — and the 3 Bugs I Shipped in 24 Hours

Build Your Own Morning Dashboard - A One-Page Recipe

Scrape Pass — Get paid when AI reads your site

How I Stop My Claude Code Sessions From Rotting

Plastic-Eating Bacteria: How Microbes Evolved to Digest a 70-Year-Old Material

Hooks That Won't Let the AI Shoot Me in the Foot

The Hook That Won't Let the Agent Say "Done"

A Local LLM Reads My Prompt Before Claude Does

The Hooks You Stop Noticing: Claude Code's Ambient Layer

The Podcast Invite That Was Actually Malware

Claude Code Quietly Taught Itself to Stop Waiting for You

I Tested All 11 Free WooCommerce EU Withdrawal-Button Plugins

WordPress Manifesto - 15 Years In, Here's What's Actually Broken